Seven Whales Found Dead in a Week in Puerto Madryn: Investigating the Impact of the Red Tide
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Whales of all ages are being found dead on the beaches of the Vldés Peninsula and the Golfo Nuevo, in the province of Patagonia Argentina. The season of this year's French-Australian whales is unfolding in an unprecedented way in recent years. One of the factors that may have contributed is the El Niño phenomenon, although experts also work with two other hypotheses.
Specialists analyze the causes of an atypical season, which already includes young, young and lifeless adults, while awaiting the results of the analyses
The deaths of southern right whale specimens are added to the data that alert the specialists of the Conservation Institute; it is believed that it could have to do with the appearance of the phenomenon known as red tide
They try to determine whether the deaths occurred as a result of an alteration caused by El Niño.
Seven southern right whales were found dead on the coasts of Puerto Madryn in less than a week, in a season marked by unusual mortality. Researchers analyze whether the biotoxins of the red tide could affect adult specimens. According to the newspaper El Chubut, the situation also generated concern among...
The analyses carried out by CENPAT-CONICET scientists detected a bacterium associated with septicemia in samples of whales found dead on the coasts of Chubut. In parallel, researchers study whether harmful algal blooms, known as red tide, could be related to the deaths of adult specimens. For now, there are no definitive conclusions. [...] The entry What is killing whales in Chubut: scientists analyze two hypotheses was first published in All Pr…
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